lymphoma

From lymph, from Latin lympha (“water”) and -oma (“disease, morbidity”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɪmˈfoʊ.mə/

lymphoma (countable and uncountable, plural lymphomata or lymphomas)

1. (oncology, pathology) A malignant tumor that arises in the lymph nodes or in other lymphoid tissue.
   • 1867, Reginald Southey, The Nature and Affinities of Tubercle: Being the Gulstonian Lectures for the Year 1867:

     In the one sub-class, we have the Leukaemic Lymphoma, the Typhous Lymphoma, the Hyperplastic Lymphoma (ex. the simple hypertrophied tonsil), Lympho-sarcoma, Scrofulous Glands; and in the other sub-class, Tubercle of man, and Perlsucht or Parresyge, or Morbus Gallicus, the pearl distemper of ruminating animals.

• cancer
  • carcinoma
    • adenocarcinoma

lymphoma (plural lymphomas)

1. lymphoma